 Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon...  Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery - Page xxby John Clare - 1820 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | W J B Owen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 349 pages
...excepting the nocturnal Reverie of Lady Winchilsea, and a passage or two from the Windsor Forest of Pope, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
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